Patchwork Road
By Rey

Chapter summary: Sometimes, one needs an alone time, in whatever way possible. Tony is not an exception to that.
But not in the way most people would think. Oh, definitely not.

21. Luxurious

Clint is not speaking with Natasha, because Natasha begged Loki to heal him.

Steve is not speaking with Pepper, because she advocated for the by-now-unfrozen Winter Soldier to be remanded to the authorities, while the blank-eyed assassin turned out to be Bucky Barnes, his life-long and best friend.

Loki is not speaking with Thor, who is newly back from Asgard and trying so hard to apologise to him for blindly adhering to SHIELD's demand to leave him in their custody earlier.

Bruce is hiding from all the tensions by locking himself in his lab, with his newly retrieved sweetheart Betty Ross.

Erik and Jane are sequestered in their own lab for the same reason, and so is their assistant Darcy….

Well, what an awesome coincidence! Now Tony can snoop and spy on SHIELD-that-may-not-be-entirely-SHIELD to his heart's content, aided just by his faithful AI companion and best buddy and butler and advisor JARVIS. No Clint and Natasha to critique him about his snoopy activities, no Pepper and Steve and Brucey to nag him to rest, no Loki and his kiddies to torment him, no booming-voiced Thor to distract him, and no trio of alien-dude-detector scientists – and assistant scientist – either to divert his attention from his new job! It's a very, very, very good gift that they've inadvertently given him, it's certainly rare and grand, and Tony would like to bask in it.